Books to Inspire Travel
Pettibon, Eggleston, Mitchell, Walter, Albers, Concrete Cuba
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
Publication Date: 2024
This curated series of publications from David Zwirner Books invites readers on a visual journey across regions and cultures, sparking inspiration in all directions. Each volume showcases the unparalleled work of an artist who captures the essence of place, evoking wanderlust and a deep desire for discovery.
Included in this bundle: Point Break: Raymond Pettibon, Surfers and Waves William Eggleston: The Outlands, Selected Works Joan Mitchell: Paintings, 1979–1985 By Land, Air, Home, and Sea: The World of Frank Walter Anni Albers: Camino Real Concrete Cuba
Details
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
Artist: Anni Albers, William Eggleston, Joan Mitchell, Raymond Pettibon
Contributors: Frank Walter
Publication Date: 2024
ISBN: COL043
Retail: $400
Pages: 984
Reproductions: 629 illustrations
Artist and Contributors
Anni Albers
Known for her pioneering graphic wall hangings, weavings, and designs, Anni Albers (née Annelise Fleischmann; 1899–1994) is considered one of the most important abstract artists of the twentieth century, as well as an influential designer, printmaker, and educator. Across the breadth of her career, she combined a deep and intuitive understanding of materials and process with her inventive and visually engaging exploration of form and color.
William Eggleston
Over the course of nearly six decades, William Eggleston (b. 1939) has established a singular pictorial style that deftly combines vernacular subject matter with an innate and sophisticated understanding of color, form, and composition. His photographs transform the ordinary into distinctive, poetic images that eschew fixed meaning. One of the medium’s foremost practitioners to date, Eggleston’s work continues to exert an influence on contemporary visual culture at large.
Joan Mitchell
Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) established a singular visual vocabulary over the course of her more than four-decade career. While rooted in the conventions of abstraction, Mitchell’s inventive reinterpretation of the traditional figure-ground relationship and remarkable adeptness with color set her apart from her peers, resulting in intuitively constructed and emotionally charged compositions that alternately conjure individuals, observations, places, and points in time.
Raymond Pettibon
Raymond Pettibon’s (b. 1957) influential oeuvre engages a wide spectrum of American iconography. Intermixing image and text, his drawings engage the visual rhetorics of pop and commercial culture while incorporating language from mass media as well as classic texts by writers such as William Blake, Marcel Proust, John Ruskin, and Walt Whitman.
Frank Walter
Frank Walter (1926–2009) was born Francis Archibald Wentworth Walter, on Horsford Hill, Antigua. He spent much of the 1950s traveling and learning advanced agricultural and industrial techniques in England, Scotland, and West Germany. The artist returned to the Caribbean in 1961, where, in addition to painting, drawing, and writing, he began making sculptures, photographs, and sound recordings. In the early 1990s, Walter designed and built his home and studio on Bailey Hill in Antigua, where he spent the remainder of his time in relative isolation, reflecting, writing, and making art. Walter had retrospectives at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, in 2020 and the Pavilion of Antigua and Barbuda at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, and his work has been the subject of solo exhibitions worldwide.
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